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South Levantine Arabic

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Levantine Arabic and sometimes called Eastern Arabic is a broad variety of Arabic spoken in the 100 to 200 km-wide Eastern
Mediterranean coastal strip. It is considered one of the five major varieties of Arabic In the frame of the general diglossia
status of the Arab world, Levantine Arabic is used for daily oral use, while most of the written and official documents and
media use Modern Standard Arabic. On the basis of the criterion of mutual intelligibility, Levantine Arabic could be regarded
as a self standing language (with different variants or dialects as explained below), as distinct from other members of the
Arabic language family such as Egyptian Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic or Peninsular Arabic, in the same way as French, Spanish and
Romanian are all descended from Latin but are separate languages within the family of Romance languages. Source : DBpedia